50 Amazing Mcommerce and Mobile Facts

Editor’s note: Mobile devices have become part of our lives and now intensively change common shopping practice all over the world. Check the most recent mcommerce and mobile facts gathered by aheadWorks, which describe today’s mcommerce status and its nearest future.

Mobile Devices Proliferation

The number of mobile devices exceeds Earth population. (Source: Cisco)

Sellers shipped over one billion smartphones in 2013. The growth was 38.4% compared to 725.3 million shipped in 2012. (Source: International Data Corporation)

More than 30% of US internet users have a tablet device. (Source: eMarketer)

56% of US grown-ups have smartphones. (Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2013)

US smartphone users will amount 207 million by 2017 (compare to 140 million in 2013) , and 3 billion users all around the world. (Source: mobilecommercedaily.com)

Mcommerce

In 2017, about 25% of online retail transactions in the U.S. will be made using mobile devices. (Source: eMarketer)

By 2017, about 70% of online buyers will make a purchase on a mobile device. (Source: eMarketer)

Mobile retail payments reached $182B in 2013, and by 2018, they are expected to be over $700B. (Source: Juniper)

Nearly$700 billion are supposed to be transacted and affected by smartphones in 2016. (Source: Deloitte)

US online sales exceeded $2B on Cyber Monday 2013, the first time per single day. (Source: comScore Inc.)

US mobile coupon users will reach 53.2 million in 2014. (Source: eMarketer, 2013)

16B transport and events tickets will be bought annually on mobile devices by 2018, 3 times more than in 2013. (Source: Juniper)

30% of mobile customers will likely abandon a transaction if they do not face mobile-friendly experience. (Source: MoPowered)

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